Executive Advisor – Shared Services (Canada/Remote)

What is an Executive Advisor? 
 
Executive Advisors?are an exclusive group of business leaders who help to guide, advise and provide research content with CIO’s, senior executives, and other IT team members. Their guidance assists IT executives and leaders in delivering improved results by optimizing decision making, mitigating risk, and addressing the top challenges they face on the path to improving IT results that support business outcomes.   

 
Who You Are 
 
A successful?Executive Advisor?within the?Shared Services Executive Advisor Global Services?team is someone who gets excited to work closely with clients from diverse backgrounds (industries, company sizes, etc) where they can leverage their extensive IT management and leadership experience to make an impact. 
 

• A former?or transitioning Mid-Level IT Manager/CIO / Technology leaders (Manufacturing/Utilities/Financial Services/Professional Services/ Healthcare/Transportation) 

• Management and/or leadership experience in an IT capacity, Consulting, IT Supplier, Program/Project Management or other related capacity 

• Accomplished, authentic and engaged leader with experience in growth, resource constrained, and/or transformational environments 

• Able to facilitate / lead discussions on topic areas of security, vendor management, talent and workforce management, data and analytics, org design and op model and cost optimization 

• In depth understanding of the IT industry and the CIO role while possessing?the ability to listen, probe, and challenge senior executives and leaders 

• Assessing ambiguous situations and collaboratively working to solve client/stakeholder issues by?providing outcome-based options  

• Adept at quickly building rapport and trust with customers leading to effective discovery to understand goals, challenges, and risks they are facing 

• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment 

• Motivated self-starter who takes initiative in managing?their day to day efforts to enable value for assigned customers/members 

• Technically sufficient and work with minimal direction 

• Strong verbal, written, facilitation and presentation skills 

 
What is Your Impact: 
 

• Leverage ITRG services and products to provide a plan for IT executives and leaders as they address their key objectives and challenges 

• Provide review and high-level analysis of diagnostic results to customer/member including identifying key next steps 

• Identification of opportunities for enabling valuable experiences for customer/members including communicating these as well as any concerns with Sales 

• Leverage your subject matter expertise to develop synthesized answers to customers/members in response to inquiries 

• Enabling customer/member engagement leading to valued outcomes 

• Diagnose customer/member pain points and connect them with our Subject Matter Experts 

• Contribute to continuing development of Advisory Services and ITRG Research through member interactions. 

• Discover and document key initiatives for IT leaders and develop short plans for support. 

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Who are We: 
 
Info-Tech is one of the world’s fastest-growing IT research and advisory companies, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals. We produce unbiased and highly relevant IT research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. Our mission is to help IT leaders and their teams successfully implement critical technology projects and systematically improve their core processes and governance. 
 
Info-Tech Research Group of companies?is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status or characteristic including Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Veteran and are pleased to consider all qualified applicants. To that end, upon request, ITRG will ensure, to the extent possible, that accommodation be made available to applicants throughout the recruitment and hiring process.